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This Doesn’t Float Their Boat: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal.” CNN: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break.
+ Stock Answer: “Americans with large investment portfolios feel markedly better about the economy than those who don’t own stocks, according to the University of Michigan sentiment index. Sentiment among people who don’t own stocks is at the lowest level on a three-month moving average since the university began tracking it in 1998.” WSJ (Gift Article): Feeling Great About the Economy? You Must Own Stocks.
+ It Takes a Village: “Health officials have been calling for a radical overhaul of the nation’s system of elder care and one of the boldest ideas to emerge is the ‘dementia village.’ The model, which fosters social inclusion, was pioneered abroad but remains rare in the United States because of its cost. Still, advocates have been pushing to replicate it in the District — and they have been gaining traction.” WaPo (Gift Article): Why a dementia village in the Netherlands is fueling hope in DC. “Forty percent of DC’s seniors live alone, according to city data — a reality that advocates say makes community-based solutions especially urgent.”
+ We Should Be Green With Envy: “Countries like Brazil, India, and Vietnam are rapidly expanding solar and wind power. Poorer countries like Ethiopia and Nepal are leapfrogging over gasoline-burning cars to battery-powered ones. Nigeria, a petrostate, plans to build its first solar-panel manufacturing plant. Morocco is creating a battery hub to supply European automakers. Santiago, the capital of Chile, has electrified more than half of its bus fleet in recent years. Key to this shift is the world’s new renewable energy superpower: China.” (Even if you are a climate change denier, why would you want to leave all this money on the table?) NYT (Gift Article): A Flood of Green Tech From China Is Upending Global Climate Politics.
+ They Can’t Keep Their Pause Off You: Advertisers and streamers have figured out a new way to get commercials in front of viewers who are trying to avoid them. They appear when you hit the pause button.
+ Don’t Let Your Math Write a Check Your Ass Can’t Cash: “The paper also cited the Fibonacci sequence, a progression of numbers wherein each successive number beginning with the second 1 is the sum of the previous two. It goes like this: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55 . . . And, beginning with 5 and 3, if you divide two successive numbers instead of adding them—21 over 13, say, or 13 over 8—you will always get, ta-da, the divine proportion: 1.6.” That’s just a little review of the arithmetic of the ass. Wired: The Mysterious Math Behind the Brazilian Butt Lift. “For years, plastic surgeons thought the proportions of a beautiful buttocks should follow the Fibonacci sequence. Now, people are looking for a more Kardashian shape.”
